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Music and Society

The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception

  • Editor: Leppert, Richard
  • Editor: McClary, Susan
Among the year's most stimulating reading material

Book

$60.00

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Estimated despatch time 7 - 10 days

Contents

  • List of illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword: the ideology of autonomous art Janet Wolff
  • 1. The blasphemy of talking politics Bach Year Susan McClary
  • 2. Music, domestic life and cultural chauvinism: images of British subjects at home in India Richard Leppert
  • 3. On grounding Chopin Rose Rosengard Subotnik
  • 4. Towards an aesthetic of popular music Simon Frith
  • 5. Music and male hegemony John Shepherd
  • 6. The sound of music in the era of its electronic reproducibility John Mowitt
  • Index.